Background

Mr. Keith L. Johnson served as Chairman of Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council at Financial Accounting Foundation Inc. since July 2005. Mr. Johnson served a four-year term as the elected controller for the State of Idaho where he is responsible for overseeing all fiscal concerns of the state. Previously, he served as chief deputy state controller in Idaho and as the Oklahoma State comptroller. He worked on the bankruptcy workout for Orange County, California, ... and for the federal government relating to the liquidation of failed savings and loan entities. Mr. Johnson also has experience as an internal municipal auditor and as an external auditor with large CPA firms. Mr. Johnson, a certified public accountant, became a member of GASAC in 2004 as the representative of the National Association of State Auditors, Comptroller & Treasurers (NASACT). He currently serves as secretary/treasurer of the National Association of State Comptrollers (NASC), from which he received the President's Award in 1999 and 2004, and is a past member of the Government Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a member of other professional organizations including the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA). Mr. Johnson earned a bachelor's degree in business administration accounting from Boise State University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Denver College of Law.

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